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This study is concerned with the econometric analysis of innovation activities in Germany. Using microeconometric models and an unique linked employer-employee dataset provided by the German Federal Employment Office, it presents new evidence on a variety of issues ranging from the determinants of innovations to their impact on labor demand. After a brief introduction into the economics of innovation and a discussion of econometric issues such as self selection and endogeneity, the second part of this study addresses the role of public subsidies and organizational changes within establishments in the innovation process. In the third part the book analyzes whether technological and organizational changes are skill biased in favor of high skilled employees and whether they discriminate against older employees.

__Abstract__ One of the fastest growing areas in empirical finance, and also one of the least rigorously analyzed, especially from a financial econometrics perspective, is the econometric analysis of financial derivatives, which are typically complicated and difficult to analyze. The purpose of this special issue of the journal on "Econometric Analysis of Financial Derivatives" is to highlight several areas of research by leading academics in which novel econometric, financial econometric, mathematical finance and empirical finance methods have contributed significantly to the econometric analysis of financial derivatives, including market-based estimation of stochastic volatility models, the fine structure of equity-index option dynamics, leverage and feedback effects in multifactor Wishart stochastic volatility for option pricing, option pricing with non-Gaussian scaling and infinite-state switching volatility, stock return and cash flow predictability: the role of volatility risk, the long and the short of the risk-return trade-off, What's beneath the surface? option pricing with multifrequency latent states, bootstrap score tests for fractional integration in heteroskedastic ARFIMA models, with an application to price dynamics in commodity spot and futures markets, a stochastic dominance approach to financial risk management strategies, empirical evidence on the importance of aggregation, asymmetry, and jumps for volatility prediction, non-linear dynamic model of the variance risk premium, pricing with finite dimensional dependence, quanto option pricing in the presence of fat tails and asymmetric dependence, smile from the past: a general option pricing framework with multiple volatility and leverage components, COMFORT: A common market factor non-Gaussian returns model, divided governments and futures prices, and model-based pricing for financial derivatives

Chapter 1. Introduction: Significance and Role of Regional Economic Analysis in Japan -- Chapter 2. Study of Total Fertility Rate of Women in Employment, by Industrial Sector: Estimation of Japanese National and Prefectural Data Using the Own-Children Method -- Chapter 3. Analysis of the Impact of Overtourism in Japan: The Effects of Congestion Phenomena -- Chapter 4. Analysis of Environmental and Economic Effectiveness of Wind Power Generation in Japan -- Chapter 5. Economic Ripple Effects of Choice Factors and Disaster-Related Investments at Nagoya Port -- Chapter 6. Summary and Future Tasks.

Abstract.  Fisher's equation for the determination of the real rate of interest is studied from a fresh econometric perspective. Some new methods of data description for nonstationary time series are introduced. The methods provide a nonparametric mechanism for modelling the spatial densities of a time series that displays random wandering characteristics, like interest rates and inflation. Hazard rate functionals are also constructed, an asymptotic theory is given, and the techniques are illustrated in some empirical applications to real interest rates for the United States. The paper ends by calculating semiparametric estimates of long‐range dependence in U.S. real interest rates, using a new estimation procedure called modified log periodogram regression and new asymptotics that covers the nonstationary case. The empirical results indicate that the real rate of interest in the United States is (fractionally) nonstationary over 1934–1997 and over the more recent subperiods 1961–1985 and 1961–1997. Unit root nonstationarity and short memory stationarity are both strongly rejected for all these periods.

Introduction -- The One-Way Error Component Regression Model -- The Two-Way Error Component Regression Model -- Test of Hypotheses with Panel Data -- Heteroskedasticity and Serial Correlation in the Error Component Model -- Seemingly Unrelated Regressions with Error Components -- Simultaneous Equations with Error Components -- Dynamic Panel Data Models -- Unbalanced Panel Data Models -- Special Topics -- Limited Dependent Variables and Panel Data -- Nonstationary Panels -- Spatial Panel Data Models.